The local Literary Society had just enough members to field two teams, and so they decided one Saturday in June to play a baseball game down at the park. After members were assigned to teams, aptly named the Prose and the Cons, they purposed to determine which team would be the home team in a sort-of literary manner. The 18 players formed a circle and began counting, clockwise, using the letters of the alphabet rather than numbers. It was decided that if the "count" ever got to "Z" the next player would continue by calling out "A" and so on. The process would continue until a player named the letter that was also his initial. That player would then gain the honor of having his team bat last. The captain of the Cons went first, calling out "A", the next player called "B", and so it went.
Surprisingly, after 360 letters were called no player had called his initial. Well, said one, it was a nice thought, but hey let's just flip a coin, already. And thus the Prose were named home team. But by then it was dark, and the game was accordingly postponed until the following weekend.
But when they gathered next to play, there was a disagreement about who was on which team, owing to the fact that no one had bothered to write the rosters down.
No problem, though. All 18 members of the Lit Soc, Taylor, Brown, Jenkins, Miller, Gerson, Babcock, Adams, Randolph, Carver, Smith, Flynn, Sawyer, Timmons, Myers, Lucas, Morton, Young and Peters, were also long time members of BrainDen and thus had no difficulty at all in reconstructing the team rosters.
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The local Literary Society had just enough members to field two teams, and so they decided one Saturday in June to play a baseball game down at the park. After members were assigned to teams, aptly named the Prose and the Cons, they purposed to determine which team would be the home team in a sort-of literary manner. The 18 players formed a circle and began counting, clockwise, using the letters of the alphabet rather than numbers. It was decided that if the "count" ever got to "Z" the next player would continue by calling out "A" and so on. The process would continue until a player named the letter that was also his initial. That player would then gain the honor of having his team bat last. The captain of the Cons went first, calling out "A", the next player called "B", and so it went.
Surprisingly, after 360 letters were called no player had called his initial. Well, said one, it was a nice thought, but hey let's just flip a coin, already. And thus the Prose were named home team. But by then it was dark, and the game was accordingly postponed until the following weekend.
But when they gathered next to play, there was a disagreement about who was on which team, owing to the fact that no one had bothered to write the rosters down.
No problem, though. All 18 members of the Lit Soc, Taylor, Brown, Jenkins, Miller, Gerson, Babcock, Adams, Randolph, Carver, Smith, Flynn, Sawyer, Timmons, Myers, Lucas, Morton, Young and Peters, were also long time members of BrainDen and thus had no difficulty at all in reconstructing the team rosters.
And neither should you. Who played for each team?
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